Doll



July 7, 1925.

G. M. COX

DOLL

Filed Oct. 18. 1923 IWiJnZZ r,

Ge TL T uolemrcy Co Patented July 7, 1925.

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GERTRUDE MARCY 00X, or CAMBRIDGE, vrassacriusnrrs.

DOLL,

Application filedbctober 18, 1923. Serial No. 669,214.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE MARCY Cox, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealthof Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDolls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of this invention is the construction of a rag-doll whichshall as closely as possible approximate in appearance a diminutivehuman being; To this end, I provide means whereby the nose shall be moreor less protuberant, instead of being flat as in usual makes of dolls ofthis type; whose eyes shall be deep-set; whose mouth shall have reallips, and whose cheeks, chin and forehead shall be given a naturalroundness. In addition, the ringlets shall appear to grow out from thehead, instead of being glued thereto, and the complexion shall be thatof nature on both face and body.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a faceview of the head and upper part of the body of a doll embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is anelevation of the core about which the head and shoulders of the doll areformed. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view.

In the production of this doll, a core 1 is made from any suitablefabric stitched together and stufied with cotton batting or the like, asindicated at 2 in Fig. 2, to compose a head 3, neck 4 and shoulders 5,as shown in Fig. 3.

Before this core has been stitched together and stuffed, numerousstitches of embroidery 6 are suitably applied thereto on a vertical lineto coincide with the proposed nose of the doll, these stitches beingoverlaid sufficiently to approximate the degree of projection desiredfor the nose. After this is done, another layer of fabric, preferablywhite cotton, 7, is laid over the core 1, and embroidery stitches 9passed through both fabrics and disposed to represent eyes, eyebrows andlips.

Then the core-fabric is stitched together and stuffed withcotton-batting or the like; and the fabric 7 also stitched together andstuffed with the same or other fibrous material, the core 1 beingintroduced therein prior to the stitching. Vhen the body has beenstuffed, and more or less of the cotton forced up between the core andthe throat and face, three or more stitches 10 are passed through thechest of the doll immediately below or through the lower part of thecore 1, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; stitches 11 are passed entirelythrough the head from the extreme points of the mouth, and drawnsufficiently tight to suitably depress these points. Similarly, stitches12 are passed through the head from the corners of the eyes, but drawnmore tightly than the stitches 11, in order to render the eyessuiticiently deep-set.

Although the embroidery stitches 6 beneath the fabric 7 will make thelatter stand out to represent the nose of the doll, the same is renderedmore life-like both in shape and in the appearance of nostrils, by meansof a stitch 14 run transversely through the fabric 7 in the lower partof the nose, such stitch or stitches showing only at their ends.

For representing the hair, I take strands of worsted 15 and thread themthrough the fabric 7 throughout the top, back and sides of the head, asindicated in Fig. 2, the worsted being loosely spun in order torepresent curls and ringlets.

By means of a pin or the like, which I stick obliquely through thefabric 7 at various points I work some of the cotton between the coreand the outer fabric 7 up between the hair and the eyes until enough ispacked above the eyes to give a rounded contour to the forehead, asindicated in Fig. 2. Similarly, the cheeks are packed with the cotton,and finally the chin.

Arms 16 are attached to the doll-body in a well known manner, and thenthe face, bust and arms are tinted a flesh-color, and the checkssuitably colored.

After this doll has been provided with feet and legs in a well knownway, and suitably dressed, it becomes a very attractive nonbreakable toythe core 1 serving not only to keep the head and features in shape, butso to strengthen the neck as to ensure against its getting distorted orbroken.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A doll comprising a core enclosed in flexible material, the latterhaving numerous embroidery stitches to give elevation to the portionrepresenting the nose of the doll, said stitches passing through saidmaterial from side to side of the nose and over it in order to givesufficient elevation, a fabric enclosing said flexible material, and astitch passed through said fabric from side to side of the nose toindicate nostrils.-

2. The herein-described method of manufacturing dolls, which consists incutting out a section of fabric of proper dimensions" for enclosing acore, applying embroidery stitches thereto at the place where the noseis to be and to provide elevation for such nose, cutting out a sectionof fabric of a suitable size to enclose the head and body,

stitching said fabrics together along lines to compose the mouth,eyebrows and eyes, uniting the edges of the first-mentioned fabric andstufiing it to form a core, and finalgly stitching together the ed es ofthe secon mentioned fabric and smng it both in the body portion andbetween it and said core.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention, I have hereunto setmy hand this 16 day of October, 1923.

GERTRUDE MARCY COX.

